Definition of Escape

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Escape

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.

To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.

To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.

The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.

That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.

A sally.

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

An apophyge.

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

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Escape Quotations

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
John Lennon

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
Kurt Cobain

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Escape Translations

escape in Afrikaans is ontkom aan, ontsnap
escape in Danish is undkomme, undfly
escape in Dutch is ontsnappen, ontkomen, ontgaan
escape in German is entweichen, entkommen, Umschaltaste, entkommen
escape in Italian is evasione, evadere, sfuggire
escape in Latin is fugio, effugio, pretereo, subterlabor, aberro
escape in Spanish is escaparse, escape, escapar
escape in Swedish is rymning, rymma, slippa, flykt, undkomma, undfly

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